Throughout the book Paper towns, the author expresses many themes upon the characters. The main and most commonly show theme is identity. Your identity is made up of how you see yourself and how other people see you. Very few teenagers have a well understanding of their identity. People are not always who they seem to be. Though it may seem like you know a someone, you might not know who they actually are. The main character, Quentin Jacobson, is the main example of people who think like this as he sees people for what they could be rather than what they really are. Quentin has always had a crush on his neighbor Margo. When Margo unexpectedly runs away right before graduation, Quentin takes it under his arms and control to find her. ¨I …show more content…
Quentin, Ben, Radar and Lacey skip their graduation to search for her. During this hunt for Margo, Quentin starts to realize that Margo is becoming less and less of the Margo Quentin thought he knew. ¨Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.¨ When they are searching for Margo in the Grovepoint Acres, they begin to smell the stench of death. They all began to think Margo killed herself. ¨That doesn´t sound like my Margo.¨ Lacey says this meaning the best friend Margo she knew wouldn't kill herself. (185) This all comes back to everyone having a different view of who Margo is. When they come across a place where Margo had recently slept on her runway, Quentin thinks to himself how he knows Margos smell and what she most likely did while staying there but he can't began to imagine why she would stay there. ¨These are the things I cannot imagine, and I realize I cannot imagine because I didn't know Margo.¨ …show more content…
Quentin and Lacey believe that Margo is actually gone. ¨Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.¨ Radar says that he thinks Margo is hiding somewhere in New York and Ben thinks Margo is a drama queen and is just doing this all for attention. Ben says that Margo is just hiding somewhere in Orlando. Ben thinks this because he knows Margo has a tendency to pull pranks. ¨She´s not dead. She's a drama queen. Wants attention. She wants to be the center of our
As she is riding off, Zhivago is somewhat in a panic with his thoughts, "What have I done? I've given her up, renounced her, given her away." (Pasternak 374). While Zhivago was living with Lara, he wrote more than he had before. After she leaves he begins a downwards spiral.
In the book, Paper Towns, there are many people that cause conflict like Chuck Parson, Jase Worthington, and Margo's parents. Throughout the story, these people cause small conflicts. The real person who is always in the center of conflict is Margo. Even though Margo isn't really a "villain", she is the main person that causes all of the conflict in this book. She is very well-known at her school, and she is dating the popular jock, Jase Worthington. Everyone knows Margo Roth Spiegelman.
One night Margo shows up in Quentin's room, and asks him to help her with pranks which involve them getting revenge on all who have done wrong to her. After the night Quentin believes that his relationship is starting to form once again with Margo. But for the next three days Margo doesn't show up to school, Margo has disappeared. Quentin goes on a journey to find her and along the way uses the three traits determination, bravery and acceptance. Quentin shows his determination by skipping his high school graduation and prom to find Margo.
She declares that everyone who has been significant in her life is dead, including her true love, whom she lost when she was 23 years old, and her sister, Maisie. But, she says that they remain with her as ghosts, guiding her and keeping her company. Then the point of view shifts
13. What is the status of Daisy and Tom at the end of the chapter?
Sam, Quinn and Astrid are trying to figure out what is going on. They go to Quinn’s house to find his parents, but they are gone. Next, they go to Astrid’s house. Her parents are also gone, along with her little brother. Finally, the go to Sam’s house. Sam’s mother is also gone, but he finds her diary in her computer that has some interesting things in it that could explain why people have disappeared.
In a society where young adults are consumed by superficial appearances, the desire to understand others and conceptualize life is neglected. In the novel, Paper Towns, John Green challenges young adults to consider different perspectives through relatable characters and their experiences. At the beginning of the novel, Margo and Quentin do not recognize each other’s existence. Then, one night, Margo enters Q’s room through the window, and they go on an epic adventure of revenge. The next morning, Margo is gone.
Skye was smart. She found her in a back room, with a small knife in her hand under a bed. She had been waiting for Walker, her grandfather. She, somehow, knew he would come for her and at that thought, it made my heart swell. The love Walker and her have for each other is the kind you will only find in families. I miss it.
Paper Towns by John Green is the story of Quentin and his friends, Ben, Radar, and Lacey as they travel go on a journey to find Margo who may not want them to find her. The theme of this book is a reunion. Meaning that the main character, Quentin, goes on a journey to reunite with Margo, who he has known his entire life. To accomplish this, he first has to figure out where she went and then he has to come up with a strategy to reunite with her.
“Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop" (Green 30). That is what Margo said to Quentin before they set off on her revenge plan to attack almost everyone that had betrayed her. Her "boyfriend", Jason, had cheated with one of her "friends", Becca, and "friends" that didn't tell her about Jason's defence with Becca. After her scheme with her "friends" is done they head to the Sun Trust building just to make sure that no cops were on their tails. Just for fun sakes, Margo pressures Quentin into taking her to "break and enter" at SeaWorld.
"'It's beautiful,' I said. Margo scoffed. 'Really? You seriously think so?'" Quentin replies, "'I mean, well, maybe not,' I said, although it was.'" (Green 57). Quentin is keen on Margo’s approval and willing to change his opinions and beliefs to agree with hers, which determines the weak sense of self-essential to his personality. Margo glorifies his confidence when he flirts with her, but it is clear Quentin still lacks the confidence to defend his views and opinions. If Quentin does not become more confident in himself, he will always second guess himself and he will not be happy with
Nine years before thier big adventure, young Quentin Jacobson and Margo Roth Speigelman are going to a park to play. They find something very unexpected, a dead body decomposing on the base of a tree. Quentin wants to foreget the whole thing after telling this parents, but Margo wants to know why the man killed himself. Fastforwarding to their senior year in highschool, Margo sneaks over to Quentins (also known as Q), window to ask for his help. He drives her around to get revenge on her cheating boyfriend and her backstabbing friends. They spend all night vandalising houses and sneaking into SeaWorld. He spends the night falling in love. They laugh and Q finally feels like him and Margo really have a chance of becoming friends again. But after their fun night, she doesn't
He is concerned by the way this generation is immoral and is disturbed how men view women. When Quentin arrived at town, he noticed a lost Italian girl in the bakery. Aware that she started to follow him, he was considerate enough to help her find her home and repeatedly calls her, sister, “Come on, sister” 127. The little Italian girl reminded Quentin of his sister Caddy. Like Quentin worried and looked after Caddy, he accompanied the little girl and treated her kindly. Which brings a sense of compassion when Quentin helped her because he strongly believes women should be protected from immorality. Shortly, the little girl’s brother found them and accused Quentin of kidnapping her. This mistake connected with Quentin’s emotions and his past because Caddy was stolen by men from
Life is very complex and often hard to define. However, this challenge does not stop people from trying to sum up the meaning of life in one word. In Paper Towns by John Green, the three metaphors the strings, the grass, and the vessel are used throughout the book to chronicle the protagonist’s, Quentin, experiences. The novel revolves around Quentin Jacobsen, a high school senior. When his former best friend and long time crush, Margo Roth Spiegelman, comes back into his life and then suddenly disappears, Q attempts to piece together the clues he believes Margo left behind for him. Each of these three metaphors represent what Q is feeling and allow him to view life from different perspectives. As
Throughout the events that take place in S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders Ponyboy Curtis experiences an identity crisis and three of the four identity statuses. At the very end of the book he shows signs that he is beginning to resolve his identity crisis in a more positive way, but it is not shown. Identity development is one of the most crucial stages of adolescence. Failure to fully resolve the adolescent identity crisis can have both short and long term consequences. In the case of Ponyboy, his lack of resolution to the identity crisis led to problems in school and with his family. A persons’ identity is the self-definition of who and what they are. It is based on the sum of persons’ life experiences and is comprised of their self-conceptions, self-esteem, socioeconomic status, life chances, and personality factors. All of these parts can come together during the identity crisis to form a stable and healthy identity.